Abrasions ✔✔Scrapes Abstemious ✔✔Discipline, self-denying, moderate Accolade ✔✔honor, privilege, award, tribute Adamant ✔✔Inflexible, stubborn, insistent, Obstinate Adversaries ✔✔Opponents Affinity ✔✔empathy for, harmony Agrarian ✔✔Farm production Allay ✔✔reduce, diminish, decrease, lessen, alleviate, calm Aloof ✔✔distant, detached, unfriendly Altruist ✔✔Humanitarian, benevolent, unselfish Ambiguous ✔✔open to more than one interpretation, double meaning, vague Amiable ✔✔friendly, affable, amicable, cordial Anachronism ✔✔belonging to another period other the present Animosity ✔✔great ill - hostility, hatred Antediluvian ✔✔Out of date, outmoded, antiquated, passé Antithesis ✔✔opposite, contrary, reverse Apathy ✔✔indifference, lack of interest Apex ✔✔Highest point Ascetic ✔✔self-discipline, self-denying Bauble ✔✔Trinket, Ornament, Frippery Bedlam ✔✔Uproar, confusion, commotion, disorder Biennial ✔✔once every two years Bigot ✔✔Extremist, partisan, racist, sexist, chauvinist Bogus ✔✔not genuine, not true, fake, false Brazen ✔✔Bold, Shameless, defiant, impudent Cacophonous ✔✔discordant Calamity ✔✔Disaster Callous ✔✔Heartless, cruel Callow ✔✔Immature, juvenile, raw, untried, naive Candid ✔✔truthful, outspoken, honest, sincere Canter ✔✔a three-beat gait of a horse or other quadruped between a trot and a gallop Castes ✔✔Social class Caterwauling ✔✔Howling, Cry, Bark, howl, scream, wail Caustic ✔✔Corrosive, Sarcastic, Bitter Celestial ✔✔Heavenly Chaste ✔✔Virginal Commonplace ✔✔ordinary, not unusual Contiguous ✔✔adjacent, neighboring, adjoining, abutting, connecting Convalescence ✔✔Recuperation Conversant ✔✔Familiar with, knowledgeable about Convivial ✔✔Pleasant Cowardly ✔✔Pusillanimous, Lack of courage Cryptic ✔✔enigmatic Damper ✔✔mold, wet Deference ✔✔respect, obedience, surrender Demure ✔✔modest, reserved, bashful, proper, chaste Derisive ✔✔mocking, insulting, sarcastic Disdainful ✔✔Scornful - Disrespectful Dissident ✔✔objector, protester, rebel, agitator, protesting, Rebellious Dogged ✔✔tenacious, determined, purposeful Dogmatic ✔✔insistent, adamant, authoritarian Domicile ✔✔Residence Edible ✔✔safe to eat, consumable, good to eat Edicts ✔✔order, command, decree Elicit ✔✔obtain, draw out, evoke, induce, provoke Empirically ✔✔based on, concerned with,